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Chapter 40 Livelihood

The dirty girl pushed away the other children who were gathered around and clapped wildly: "Brother is so awesome! He really tied up the fleas with his hair! Give me, give me..."

Su You gave her the hair: "The hair band will loosen and the fleas will run away after a while."

The dirty girl asked: "What should we do?"

Su You picked a small branch from the roadside, tore the two ends apart, stuck his hair in it, and made it look like a small bow: "Here, that's it."

The little girl seemed very happy. Her little hands were holding the branch and the small bow, just like some great toy.

A group of children looked at Su You with eyes full of admiration.

A child asked: "Brother, is this how you catch all the fleas?"

Su You laughed and said, "How is that possible? If you want to be free from fleas, you must live in a clean place, wear clean clothes, bathe frequently, and change clothes frequently."

Qi'er whispered: "We don't have any clothes to change..."

Su You looked at a group of children in ragged clothes and nodded: "It is indeed a problem, but it will always be solved. If we think more about it, we will always have clothes to change, a place to live, and something to eat."

When the dirty girl heard Su You's words, she was about to shame him for boasting. She just raised her hand, looked at the flea tied in her hair between the branches, and stopped talking.

The Tutu Temple is very dilapidated, with a destroyed statue inside.

It is said that this was also the masterpiece of Zhongxian Gong. The old man hated the demon god most in his life. The Earth Temple outside Meishan City is dedicated to General Mao. Some people took advantage of the villagers' superstition to defraud money. The villagers were also afraid of retribution. The liar took whatever he said.

As a result, the old man got drunk one day and went crazy. He invited about 20 people from the village to come to the temple and destroy the statue of General Mao.

The more interesting things are yet to come. One day, the old man went out to play and passed by a deep mountain. He found that there was also a General Mao Temple there. He was furious and cursed: "How dare this demon god hide here?" He was ready to attack this temple again.

The temple's blessing hurriedly ran out and said: "Is it Su Qijun? Last night, the great god told me in a dream that Su Qijun was coming. He was so scared that he was so scared. Please let me tell you. He has hidden in the mountains and forests. Please stay in this small temple.

Give him a place and he will never dare to mess around again."

In addition to the persuasion of everyone in his party, the old man let the statue go.

People are afraid of ghosts and gods. The life of the seventh old man of the Su family has not been in vain!

Going a step further, the Earth Temple is located in a tight area, and there are about a dozen naked children playing havoc inside.

Qi'er took a look and said, "Eldest brother hasn't come back yet."

Su You frowned: "Why don't they have any clothes?"

Qi'er said: "In addition to girls, there are also those who go out every day, and the rest of the boys have no clothes."

Only then did Su You realize that he had forgotten the price of Da Song's clothes again.

A set of clothes in a ready-made clothing store costs three to four hundred fen. Even if it is half for children, it still costs one or two hundred fen. If fifty children want to do this, the ten guan of money that they just got will be gone.

This cannot be the case.

After thinking about it, he threw the braised meat to Qi'er and asked them to invite the children to come over and eat.

He took out a knife from his body, cut open the bamboo, cut the bamboo green peel into thin slices, sharpened both ends, scraped them smooth, and put them together. Then he used a thick bamboo slice to cut a clip and melt the resin into it.

Put it into the card and insert the thin bamboo piece in the middle.

Then press a piece of bamboo skin on it, take a piece of thread from the schoolbag strap and tie it on both ends. This becomes a grate.

After doing several in a row, Su You stopped.

There were many slender bamboo groves by the Meishan River, which were all ownerless. After Su You had eaten the children, he divided them into two groups. The boys went with him to chop bamboo, and the girls went to collect fodder.

The children liked this clean new kid very much because he had an adult look and brought them good food that they couldn't usually eat.

The folding knife was very small and could only cut thin bamboo branches, but this was enough. Su You just cut the pieces and piled them into a bundle and let one of the children carry them out.

When he felt better, Su You asked several children to fold some tree sticks and returned to the Tutu Temple.

Then he used a knife to cut out the bamboo strips and trimmed the thin bamboo branches neatly. He called the girl over and learned to tie a broom with him.

After tying the broom head, take a wooden stick, sharpen it and drive it in, then drive in two wooden nails as pins, and you will have a long-handled broom.

After sharpening some other wooden sticks and instructing the girls to do so, Su You went to watch the boys work.

The boys had already been sent to move the clay statues out of the temple, find pebbles to smash, and use the tile incense burner that the children had used as a basin to fetch water and mix the mud.

The clay used for the idols had been kneaded in the past, but now the boys made a circle with wet clay, poured earth powder into the middle, then fetched water and stepped on the clay, playing a fun game.

Su You asked them to take out the incense table from the Tutu Temple and wipe the broken bamboo mats on it. He sent the girls to clean the Tutu Temple with brooms. He made clay tablets on the incense table and tied two pieces with a vine.

Draw a circle on a bamboo nail and cut off the excess to form three pot bottoms.

While letting the children dig out an earth dragon, they dug out a simple fire tunnel on the slope, leveled the top of the fire tunnel, made a chimney with stones and mud at the end, and then lit the fire.

Spread the three mud cakes used as the bottom of the pot, together with the torn mats, on the flat surface above the fire channel. While baking the mud cakes, let the children roll the mud strips, and they themselves will place the mud strips on the round cakes in circles.

On top, scrape and press with bamboo slices while panning, gradually forming the shape of a basin.

The boys were amazed by Su You's tricks, and they all came over to help roll the clay strips, which made Su You a little busy.

One child was left to light the fire, two children were left to make clay sticks, and the rest were sent to help the girls clean the house.

Soon, the three clay pots were ready and baked dry.

Su You said to the three children: "Have you all seen it?"

The three boys nodded repeatedly, and Su You smiled and said, "Then just do it and see who does it better."

He then moved the clay pot to the front of the Earth Temple, piled firewood on it, and lit a fire.

The boys were all attracted by the fire and gathered around to watch excitedly. Normally, their eldest brother would not allow them to touch the fire.

Seeing that the children were happy, Su You asked the older ones to look after the children and added firewood while he turned around and went back to making pottery.

Soon, pottery bottles and pottery bowls were transformed in Su You's hands.

Su You clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "It's hard to learn country craftsmanship in vain!"

Letting the pottery continue to bake on the fire path, Su You mixed up some mud and asked the two children who were making clay strips to use the mud to repair any gaps they saw. Then he went to inspect the three clay pots that had been burning for more than half an hour.

After removing the fire and using a wooden stick to push the three red-hot pottery vessels out of the fire, Su You knew it was done.

Send the children to fetch the clay pots they just made. If there are too many things, you have to be careful about how they are stacked, leaving enough room for excess.

After placing the clay vessels, use firewood to build a fire channel in the middle of the clay vessels, pile firewood on them, and start another big fire.

Afterwards, Su You sat down and began to cut bamboo silk and make a dustpan.

As soon as Su You performed these tricks, he became an idol in the children's minds.

The Earth Temple had been cleaned, and the broken mud curtains had been pulled out. The girls were well-behaved. Seeing that Su You was busy at such a young age, they came over and said, "Brother, can you teach us how to weave bamboo?"

Su You smiled and said: "Okay, it's actually very simple to make this up."

Light knitting is indeed easy, but the difficulty lies in closing the edges, but Su You can do the closing work by yourself.

By this time, the pottery basin had cooled down. A boy tried to touch it and found that it was no longer hot. Then he stretched out his hand and flicked it, making a "dang" sound.

All the children cheered and jumped. They all worked hard, and now they are naturally happy for their success.

Su You was also very happy, but under Old Uncle Longli's nose, how could he have the opportunity to play like this!

After weaving ten bamboo bases, Su You called some of the children over and started winding the bamboo silk one by one, leaving one big one responsible for cutting the strips.

I went to check the situation inside the Earth Temple.

The girl was attentive and had already cleaned the place and wiped the windows with broken curtains. The children's small broken pots and other things were also collected together.

After walking around for a while, Su You went to the Glass River to check the sand again.

When they came to a collapsed beach, Su You inserted a piece of bamboo into the sand to remove a layer: "It's as expected."

The sand is divided into layers, one layer of fine mud, one layer of sand, and above the sand and below the mud, there is a layer of black material.

The iron sand layer contains extremely high manganese content and can be used to smelt Yunnan Iron and Steel's iron sand layer!
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